DURHAM, N.C. – Duke will appear twice on ESPN Big Monday broadcasts this season as announced by the network Wednesday. The Blue Devils kick off Big Monday with a Jan. 13 home game against Virginia and also travel to Pittsburgh for a Jan. 27 tilt.

Eight ACC games will be broadcast on consecutive Mondays between Jan. 13 and March 3. Each game is set for a 7 p.m. start and will be televised nationally by ESPN.

All games will be available through WatchESPN, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, through ESPN on Xbox LIVE to Gold members and on Apple TV to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider.

“ESPN Big Monday provides a terrific window to further showcase ACC Basketball,” said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. “This opportunity provides our players, coaches and fans with unprecedented appointment viewing, and it will be exciting to watch all 15 member schools compete throughout the season.”

The complete 2013-14 ACC basketball schedule, with dates, starting times and television broadcast information, will be released later this month.

NOTING THE ACC ON ESPN’S BIG MONDAY• Each of the ACC’s three newest members – Notre Dame, Pitt and Syracuse – has at least one game scheduled as part of the ESPN Big Monday package. That includes Pitt’s home game against Duke on Jan. 27 and a head-to-head meeting between Notre Dame and Syracuse on Feb. 3.• North Carolina and Virginia lead ACC teams with three Big Monday appearances each. Duke, Maryland, Notre Dame and Syracuse are each scheduled to appear twice.• Five of the ACC teams scheduled to appear on Big Mondays have been rated among the nation’s Preseason Top 25 by at least one analyst, including Top-10 selections Duke, North Carolina and Syracuse.• Duke and Pitt will renew a competitive series when the Blue Devils travel to face the Panthers on Jan. 27. The teams have split their 12 previous meetings, the most recent being Pitt’s 65-64 win in overtime on Dec. 20, 2007. The Blue Devils will be making their fifth trip to Pittsburgh and their first since a 78-69 win on Jan. 26, 1980.• The Feb. 24 game matching Maryland and Syracuse will be their eighth head-to head meeting, four of which have come in postseason. The Orange will visit College Park for the third time and for the first time since Dec. 29, 1976.• Notre Dame’s visit to North Carolina on March 3 will mark the first meeting between the teams since the 2008 Maui Classic and only their second meeting since 1994. Notre Dame seeks its first win in three trips to Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels prevailed at the Smith Center in 1986 and 1993.• Teams participating in the Big Monday games are set to return a combined six student-athletes who earned all-conference honors last season: Virginia Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell, North Carolina’s James Michael McAdoo, Syracuse’s C.J. Fair, Notre Dame’s Jerian Grant and Duke’s Quinn Cook.• The Big Monday lineup will feature college basketball’s two-all time winningest coaches in Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski (957 career wins) and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim (920), and three of the four active NCAA coaches with 700 or more wins in Krzyzewski, Boeheim and North Carolina’s Roy Williams (700). The ACC trio, which has combined for seven NCAA titles, comprises three of the five active Division I coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.• A total of 24 starters are slated to return for the eight ACC teams that comprise the Big Monday lineup, including four apiece at Florida State and Notre Dame.